PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Victim Blaming, Group Polarization, Social Loafing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

How we think about, influence, and relate to one another. Emphasis on situation rather than person: how the same person can act differently in different situations, how different people can act the same in the same situation. Why you behave in certain situations is complicated and sometimes silly at times. Includes things like attitudes, not obvious to others, but influence your behaviour. By nature, or nurture, this is who you are, behavioural tendencies in common and not in common. Putting people into a situation and observing its effect on them. What you say you will do in a situation, you might not actually end up doing. Hard to study human social behaviour without harming the participants in some situations. Its hard to k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:449)hat (cid:455)ou"re a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) goi(cid:374)g to do i(cid:374) a situatio(cid:374), (cid:449)he(cid:374) (cid:455)ou"re (cid:374)ot i(cid:374) it. Atte(cid:373)pt to e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ior (cid:271)(cid:455) attri(cid:271)uti(cid:374)g it to a (cid:272)ause, su(cid:272)h as: dispositio(cid:374): perso(cid:374)"s sta(cid:271)le traits, situation.